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Title: |
Lucky catch |
Description: |
I was crossing over the tracks on Ark 12, and looked to the south to check the signal. It was green for the main. I had about enough time to turn around and get into position, just barely catching this 92 car southbound M train. |
Photo Date: |
3/24/2021 Upload Date: 3/25/2021 5:36:47 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4809(ES44AC) KCSM 4531(AC44CW) |
Views: |
90 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
By the cemetery |
Description: |
The DPU on the northbound TXUX train passes the cemetery at CP Flint Creek |
Photo Date: |
4/2/2021 Upload Date: 4/5/2021 6:14:57 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7075(ES44C4) BNSF 8528(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
62 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Peeking out |
Description: |
The northbound TXUX train we saw at Siloam has picked up a pair of units from the Swepco spur, and is now passing the signal as it joins the main. Hell tie back onto his train and go north |
Photo Date: |
4/2/2021 Upload Date: 4/5/2021 5:37:19 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9174(SD70ACe) BNSF 8482(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
51 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Spring leaves |
Description: |
A northbound empty grain train approaches Davidson Rd with 95 empty hoppers, passing an oak that is still filling out, so far not enough to really obstruct the second unit. |
Photo Date: |
4/30/2021 Upload Date: 5/3/2021 5:38:52 AM |
Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4689(ES44AC) KCS 4690(ES44AC) KCS 4790(ES44AC) |
Views: |
84 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Chicken Feed |
Description: |
Which is big business here. Curran Feed is a retailer, and does not have a siding, but the trains pass right by the building, making for this scene of Gentry commerce. Southbound Q train rolls by. |
Photo Date: |
5/6/2021 Upload Date: 5/9/2021 5:11:05 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4798(ES44AC) |
Views: |
65 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Flashing |
Description: |
I rolled up on this southbound Q train just as it was approaching the Main St crossing in Gentry, getting the approach along with the flashers blinking out their warning to approaching motorists. |
Photo Date: |
5/6/2021 Upload Date: 5/9/2021 5:20:27 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4798(ES44AC) KCS 5015(ET44AC) |
Views: |
99 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Stretched out |
Description: |
The southbound Q train seen from a slightly closer angle to the tracks. The high cars make for an interesting long view. He appeared to be slowing for a meet, and had a red board at the south end of the siding. The meet was probably the northbound grain train we saw this day at Westville, with KCSM 4673 leading. |
Photo Date: |
5/6/2021 Upload Date: 5/9/2021 5:26:12 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4798(ES44AC) KCS 5015(ET44AC) |
Views: |
114 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Q train |
Description: |
I had not done this shot in a while, but it turned out to be a good second choice. I was planning to get the shot off Ark 59 north of town, but the line there is now treed in along the creek, a lot of change since I first started coming here in 2007. So, I set up here at the Butler Creek bridge for this shot of the Q KCSH. Todays effort has 108 freight, 9 articulated auto racks, and 4 stack platforms. |
Photo Date: |
9/22/2021 Upload Date: 9/23/2021 5:37:49 AM |
Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4610(AC44CW) KCSM 4082(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
103 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
On the creek |
Description: |
Always a good shot in the afternoon, the Q train rolls along Wolf Creek in the dip between Decatur and Gravette, its two units easily handling the 52 cars and two stack platforms in tow. |
Photo Date: |
9/22/2021 Upload Date: 9/23/2021 5:56:57 AM |
Location: |
Gravette, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4689(ES44AC) KCS 4176(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
111 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Flagged |
Description: |
The northbound Q train rolls across Main St in Gentry, framed by several of the American flags that are on each light pole on the street. The trailing unit, a bit dirtier than the leader, doesn't show up as well. |
Photo Date: |
9/22/2021 Upload Date: 9/23/2021 5:51:04 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4689(ES44AC) KCS 4176(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
96 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Tunnel of trees |
Description: |
When I lived in the northeast, this was a pervasive problem: rail lines were so long established that the trees had, over many years, grown up around them, making photography a challenge. So it is here as well, as this northbound Q train rolls in a long, shaded trough, the trees having grown up over the years. |
Photo Date: |
9/22/2021 Upload Date: 9/24/2021 5:44:22 AM |
Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4689(ES44AC) KCS 4176(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
98 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Waiting on a meet |
Description: |
Northbound empty oil train waits south of the Ark 59B crossing in Gentry for a southbound grain move. Hell pull up to the signal once the grainer is in the picture. |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 4:52:27 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
Views: |
63 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Starting up |
Description: |
The southbound has called the signal at MP 219, and the oil train starts to move toward the signal in anticipation of the meet. |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 5:11:24 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
Views: |
68 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Pulling away |
Description: |
The empty oil train slowly rolls toward the end of the siding, a BNSF unit trailing the CP leader, along with a buffer car. |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 5:15:24 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
Views: |
77 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Oil |
Description: |
A look down the train shows the effect of a single type of car in a tele view of this trains 114 cars as it waits for a southbound |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 4:55:21 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 8882(ES44AC) BNSF 7451(ES44DC) |
Views: |
72 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Class unit |
Description: |
The southbound grain train called the signal at North Gentry, then announced itself by blowing for the crossing. As it came around the bend, the lead unit turned out to be the SD70ACe class unit. It was originally gray, now repainted into the Belle scheme. |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 5:25:01 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4000(SD70ACe) KCS 4811(ES44AC) |
Views: |
82 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
By the mill |
Description: |
The southbound grain train rolls its 102 cars past the feed mill in Siloam Springs. |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 5:34:26 AM |
Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4000(SD70ACe) KCS 4811(ES44AC) |
Views: |
141 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Going away |
Description: |
Northbound empty grain train going away at Davidson Rd. |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/18/2021 5:46:38 AM |
Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4143(SD70ACe) KCS 4016(SD70ACe) KCS 4055(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
96 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Rolling out of the sun |
Description: |
And on to Kansas City. The empty grain train approaches the southbound signal at Davidson Rd as it works its way north to another load of grain for Mexico. |
Photo Date: |
10/7/2021 Upload Date: 10/21/2021 4:16:14 AM |
Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4143(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
80 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Big power for a work train |
Description: |
GE 4584 is holding down the unglamourous duty of leading a work train at Gentry. |
Photo Date: |
10/19/2021 Upload Date: 12/10/2021 5:09:05 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4584(AC44CW) |
Views: |
79 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Wings |
Description: |
The wingspan view of a northbound GE on a lite power move at Gentry |
Photo Date: |
10/19/2021 Upload Date: 12/10/2021 5:13:02 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4683(ES44AC) |
Views: |
79 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Not fast enough |
Description: |
I was heading out to drop recycling, which is conveniently adjacent to the tracks just beyond this crossing,leaving the house when I heard this guy blowing for a crossing. He made better time than I expected-the northbound trains tend to be empty moves of coal and grain cars-and I got there just a little too late to set up. Oh well. Cant win em all. |
Photo Date: |
10/19/2021 Upload Date: 12/10/2021 5:58:11 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4837(ES44AC) |
Views: |
83 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ET north |
Description: |
No, not THAT ET!! This one is a KCS 5000 series ET 44 AC, headed north with an 80 car empty grain trail just south of Decatur. |
Photo Date: |
10/19/2021 Upload Date: 12/10/2021 6:10:51 AM |
Location: |
Decatur, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 5011(ET44AC) KCS 4055(SD70ACe) KCS 4833(ES44AC) |
Views: |
121 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Arriving at the plant |
Description: |
An AEPX coal train approaches the Taylor Orchard Rd overpass, about to enter the AEP Flint Creek generating station. UP power is typical on these trains. |
Photo Date: |
11/15/2021 Upload Date: 12/15/2021 5:35:31 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5458(AC45CCTE) UP 8929(SD70AH) |
Views: |
94 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Slow roll |
Description: |
A southbound American Electric Power train rolls slowly through the home signals at CP South Gentry. Hes slowing for the switch to the Flint Creek power plant, which he will encounter a 1/2 mile or so farther on at CP Flint Creek. |
Photo Date: |
11/15/2021 Upload Date: 12/15/2021 5:38:36 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5458(AC45CCTE) UP 8929(SD70AH) |
Views: |
78 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
My biggest fan |
Description: |
My wife, Diane, poses with displayed F 7 73D at the Decatur station while we were out enjoying a sunny 70 plus degree day on the KCS. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 4:57:56 AM |
Location: |
Decatur, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
Views: |
83 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Q train DPU |
Description: |
A single SD 70ACe brings up the rear of this southbound Q train at the cemetery adjacent to CP Flint Creek |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:02:05 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4781(ES44AC) |
Views: |
59 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
All quiet |
Description: |
Nobody is complaining as the Q train blows for the crossing here next to the cemetery. The train approaches the signal for CP Flint Creek. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:05:42 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) KCSM 4554(AC44CW) |
Views: |
61 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Horsing around |
Description: |
The Q train passes the CP Flint creek home signal as a couple of horses in the adjacent pasture ignore the action. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:09:22 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) |
Views: |
54 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Old relic |
Description: |
The Q train passes through Gravette, passing a switch stand for a now abandoned siding to a lumber yard, which is still in business. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:11:29 AM |
Location: |
Gravette, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) KCSM 4554(AC44CW) |
Views: |
82 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
New spot |
Description: |
I never gave Sulphur Springs much thought. The good shots there are off the Arkansas 59 overpass north of town, and in town on the bridge over Butler Creek. I never took the time to explore for other spots, as there didnt seem to be much. My wife was with me this day, and wanted to look around town some, since we had not, largely because Sulphur Springs seems to be the town that time forgot. We saw a side street that looked like it headed for the tracks. and she saw a RR crossing sign. So off we went. The shot of a northbound there is straight on, but the southbound shot there is coming through a high car detector, which we see here with the Q train rolling though. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:15:47 AM |
Location: |
Sulphur Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) |
Views: |
55 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Peeking around the corner |
Description: |
The Q train slowly rolls into Decatur, making its way around the curve at Roller Av, passing the distant signal for Dorsey siding. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:17:43 AM |
Location: |
Decatur, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
Views: |
90 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Couple of Belles |
Description: |
One a princess, one a dowager. The Q train passes the displayed F 7 at the Decatur station. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:19:11 AM |
Location: |
Decatur, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) KCSM 4554(AC44CW) KCS 73D(F7A) |
Views: |
129 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Stuffed and mounted |
Description: |
The station at Decatur is now a museum, and has the honor of hosting displayed F 7 73D, and caboose KCS 383 there. This is the track side, the station behind the equipment. Note the signal at far left in the background, showing red over red. The Q train is imminent. |
Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:00:05 AM |
Location: |
Decatur, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
Views: |
83 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Caught him |
Description: |
I had just gotten home from recycling-right by the tracks-when I heard a horn. This is a running joke between my wife and me: we always seem to hear a train within five minutes of returning home, no matter where weve been, or if weve been following the tracks the whole time we were out. I dropped the bins in the garage and headed out, knowing from the direction of the horn that it was a northbound. As I crested the hill into town, I heard the detectorf at Davidson Rd go off, and knew I had to hurry. As it turned out the train was being run into the siding at Gentry, and was holding there. Oh, good, a meet, I thought. I went to Main St and shot the head end as it waited at the site of the old station. Thats Ark 12 in the distance, Well see some shots from there later in the set. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 5:00:53 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9009(SD70ACe) KCS 4575(AC44CW) |
Views: |
72 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Long line |
Description: |
A head on view shows the long line of coal hoppers stretched out toward the Ark 12 overpass and CP South Gentry, glinting in the late afternoon sun. Of note, trailing unit KCS 4575 was once a "NAFTA" unit, with a special paint job. It was painted into the Belle scheme in 2013 |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 5:10:28 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9009(SD70ACe) KCS 4575(AC44CW) |
Views: |
64 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Stretched out |
Description: |
The coal train seen from the Ark 12 overpass, the head end now around the curve to the north, approaching CP N Gentry. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 5:16:04 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
57 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Rolling into the siding |
Description: |
When I got to Gentry, the train was pulled up in the siding. Its now moving slowly through, the rear stretched through the switch at the south end of the siding. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 5:29:06 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
25 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
DPU into the siding. |
Description: |
The DPU on the coal train swings into the siding, seen from the Ark 12 overpass. It would turn out there was to be no meet. I had left my scanner in the car, so did not hear any conversation with the dispatcher, so no idea why he had the train run through the siding here. The next southbound Im aware of didnt hit Siloam til several hours later, so must have met this guy at McElhany or Dalby. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 5:34:57 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9634(SD70MAC) BNSF 5751(ES44AC) |
Views: |
48 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Grinstein close up |
Description: |
As the train made its way through the siding, it stopped a few times, one of which had the leader on the DPU just peeking out from the Ark 12 bridge. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 5:56:50 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9634(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
55 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Pulling away |
Description: |
The coal train recedes toward CP N Gentry, rolling past some old buildings in town. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 6:03:15 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9634(SD70MAC) BNSF 5751(ES44AC) |
Views: |
67 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Straight on |
Description: |
A head on tele shot of the coal train as it rolls away from the camera. Unit trails make a striking photo in this angle. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 6:07:41 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5751(ES44AC) BNSF 9634(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
61 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Downtown |
Description: |
The coal train is leaving the siding, the DPU passing the trailers at Currans Feed Store as it pulls away. |
Photo Date: |
3/25/2022 Upload Date: 3/27/2022 6:11:25 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5751(ES44AC) BNSF 9634(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
51 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Good timing |
Description: |
We were heading out with the intention of a day out in Missouri when we caught this northbound empty grain train leaving Siloam Springs. We caught it at Gentry, seen here from the Ark 12 overpass as it takes the siding with 30 cars and spanking clean power. Bulbasaur(on the concrete bridge wall to the right of the leader) seems to have faded a bit since his arrival several years ago. |
Photo Date: |
9/23/2022 Upload Date: 9/25/2022 6:06:41 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 8201(AC4400CWM) KCS 5012(ET44AC) |
Views: |
92 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Rolling to a meet |
Description: |
The northbound train rolls toward the north end of the siding, where it will meet a southbound coal train. |
Photo Date: |
9/23/2022 Upload Date: 9/25/2022 6:15:21 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 8201(AC4400CWM) KCS 5012(ET44AC) |
Views: |
88 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Going away |
Description: |
The empty grain train rolls away from the Ark 59S crossing, with a "merger mix" of power. |
Photo Date: |
9/23/2022 Upload Date: 9/25/2022 6:22:26 AM |
Location: |
Gentry, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 8201(AC4400CWM) KCS 5012(ET44AC) |
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